so awesome. yes, so awesome. the crowd showed up tonight and did a great job of keeping the energy up. kentucky dancing? no way. and what's up w/ the florida fan on the board talking about blowing people out? they barely beat uk. and we get our chance to pay back our poor showing @ uf this saturday.

I think a lot of our success against Kentuck came about because our increased intensity on defense, about damn time! Kentucky may not be the best team around but if you hold another team to more turnovers than points in a half your defense is doing something right. I love the intensity from Oglivy when he threw Stephenson to the ground like a little boy while up 38 pts. I would like to see that every game from the big.

I think what was so impressive was the fact that the tenacity we showed by getting up in Kentucky's jock straps was not just raw intensity -- it was poised and executed intensity. In other words, we were able to shut them down without getting into foul trouble and without the energy translating into over-eager mistakes on the offensive end. Offensively, we were incredibly patient and in my opinion did a textbook job of (1) finding the cutter when they overplayed and (2) going inside-out with Ogilvy when they played us straight-up.

Every news source I've checked has this as one of the top sports stories & the lead men's BB story today. Nice piece of recruiting material.

August, you can't win with the media "experts" and you shouldn't even try.

If VU beats FL and TN (knock wood) I predict Lunardi will downplay those victories as a product of the home advantage, benches under the baskets, etc.

The NCAA selection committee remembers the heat they took last year for seeding VU #5. They also remember that they were vindicated as the Comms. took out Wazzu and then were denied by a Tim Donaghy-esque NCAA referee.